Tarik Biberovic To Sign With Mavericks

Former second-round pick Tarik Biberovic has informed Fenerbahce that he’s leaving the EuroLeague for the NBA, according to Marc Stein of The Stein Line, who reports (via Twitter) that the 25-year-old is expected to sign a two-year, $6MM deal with the Mavericks. It will include a second-year team option, Stein adds.

Biberovic helped Fenerbahce win the EuroLeague title in 2025 and has captured multiple domestic championships in recent years. The 6’7″ wing is known as a top-tier shooter, having posted a .524/.419/.952 shooting line in 41 EuroLeague contests in 2025/26. He averaged 11.3 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 24.3 minutes per game over the course of the season.

Biberovic was the 56th overall pick in the 2023 draft and has remained overseas since then as a draft-and-stash prospect. The Grizzlies held his rights for the past three years, but they’re including those rights in the trade that will send Santi Aldama to Dallas.

A report last week indicated that the Mavericks were pushing to bring Biberovic stateside and were prepared to make a “significant” contract offer. While $6MM over two years isn’t a massive payday by NBA standards, it represents a higher annual salary than Dallas could have offered using the second-round pick exception, so it’ll have to come out of the team’s mid-level or bi-annual exception.

Previous reporting indicated that Biberovic’s contract with Fenerbahce features a $2MM buyout. League rules prevent the Mavericks from paying more than $900K of that amount, so unless the Turkish club agrees to reduce the figure, the Bosnian-born wing will be responsible for covering the remaining $1.1MM.

As Stein noted on Monday (via Twitter), July 7 represented the deadline for Biberovic to opt out of his contract with Fenerbahce, so if he wanted to come to the NBA for 2026/27, it was crucial that he get a deal done with Dallas by that date, despite the fact that the Aldama trade technically isn’t official yet.

Multiple reports from international outlets indicated that Biberovic was prepared to make the move stateside, with Bugra Uzar of Eurohoops (Twitter link) stating that he had an agreement in place with Dallas, while Yagiz Sabuncuoglu reported (via Twitter) that the deal would have a one-plus-one structure.